Open Source Tools

August 19th, 2010 Categories: Quality Assurance Testing Q&A One Response

Joe:
What has your experiece been with open Source Tools? i.e. Selenium?

Joe Burns says:

August 19, 2010 at 6:52 pm

Kristen,

Good question. The increased use of open source tools is growing in the enterprise space. Many organizations are taking advantage of these tools. Selenium in particular is an excellent GUI capture and playback tool. Remember regardless of open source or products on the market you need to follow these rules.

1. Don’t just record. Make sure you’re building a framework that can be parameterized (i.e. single logon that runs against multiple test cases)

2. Data Management - Spend the time to designing a strategy that works for your environment.

Thanks

Joe

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